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Posted by: Andrew Weber
As we continue to add historical data to Congress.gov, we updated the Dates of Past Sessions page back to the first session of the first Congress for both the House and Senate on March 4, 1789. There are links from the Congresses for which we have Browse pages. We also added three new Congresses to …
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
A blog post about bison and National Bison Day
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Ruth Levush
Today’s interview is with Younkyung (Regina) Eum, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Sayuri Umeda in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Masan, a small city in southern South Korea. Sadly, Masan has been integrated with the nearby city Changwon and no longer …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post describes the activism of Billy Frank on behalf of the Nisqually and area Indigenous tribes to preserve their tribal fishing rights in the courts.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Anna Price
Today’s interview is with Jesús Colón Rosado, an intern in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress through the Library of Congress Internship program (LOCI). Describe your background. I was raised in Cayey, a mountain town and municipality in central Puerto Rico. The city is known for its beautiful landscapes and its gastronomy. …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
A short history of the polygraph.
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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Erika Hope Spencer discusses avenues for research in Library of Congress collections on the subject of Witchcraft.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
As we approach the last day of the spooky season, I find myself rereading Robert Kirk’s 17th-century classic of fairy lore, The Secret Commonwealth. This book describes what people in Kirk’s time and community believed fairies were, where and how they lived, what they were able to do, and how they interacted with human beings. …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Margaret Daab, a foreign intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. I recently learned of an unlikely enemy in American history. When it threatened livelihoods in the early 20th century, the government vowed to end its destructive ways. The villain of this story? …
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